Drawing people
shaking hands from that angle is really tricky, it turns out. Also,
I would have liked to have shown Senator Neverman from the front on
this page, rather than just the side and the back, but it didn't
quite work out that way in the end. Apart from that, I'm not too
dissatisfied with the way this page turned out, although I think I
may need to rethink my approach with 3D modelling for chapter 4.
Having been re-reading Sonic the Comic over the last
couple of weeks, I've felt inspired to try depending less on
SketchUp and more on my own skills. After all, they'll never improve
if I never try, will they?

Anyways, with Roma
Nova, I really wanted there to be a sharp contrast between this city
and
Iopolis. This is the heart of the
Confederate States of Mars, formerly the most powerful city in the
Terran System. It had to be overwhelmingly huge, with big, imposing,
futuristic looking buildings, compared to the smaller, almost rustic
Iopolis. Think of it as being like the difference between
Smallville and
Metropolis in Superman comics. On a
smaller scale, Neverman's office in Mars Dome had to look smooth and
slick compared to
Caradoc's office at Jupiter House.
More space age, less organic, but also grander, more opulent,
despite this office being only the office of a senator, rather than
a head of state like Caradoc. Anyways, I like the way it turned out.

Now, originally,
chapter 3 was going to be a story about Queen Sakura (Eon's wife,
for those of you with short memories, or who never read Eon's
World 1.0), but I was never satisfied with the script for it. I
don't think many people would be interested in an 11 page argument
between a queen and a lord, so I decided to scrap that idea for now
and focus on the whole assassination plot. However, I did recycle
the news report into the opening of this chapter. News reports are
great for exposition... and laying the foundations for things to
come...

Oh yes! I would be
remiss if I did not let long time readers know that Nova Cambria
(the Eon's World 2.0 equivalent of Australia) was formerly
known in Eon's World 1.0 as 'Stalauria'. The name change is a
complete retcon. After all, Stalauria wasn't a particularly clever
name in the first place; it was just an anagram of 'Australia'. But,
yes, it is the same state that was occupied by the Empire during the
Union-Imperial War and formed the seat of the Imperial government.
In the updated Eon's World canon, Nova Cambria is named after
the Britannic province of Cambria (equivalent to Wales in the real
world).